Pegeen (film)
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Directed byDavid Smith
Screenplay byWilliam B. Laub[1]
Based onPegeen (novel)
by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
StarringBessie Love
| Pegeen | |
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_-_Love_&_Spere.jpg) Still with Bessie Love and Charles Spere | |
| Directed by | David Smith |
| Screenplay by | William B. Laub[1] |
| Based on | Pegeen (novel) by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd |
| Starring | Bessie Love |
| Cinematography | Charles R. Seeling[2] |
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Release date |
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Running time | 5 reels[4] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Pegeen is a 1920 American silent drama film based on the 1915 novel of the same name by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd.[4][5] It was produced by Vitagraph Studios[1] and directed by David Smith.[1] It stars Bessie Love in the title role.
Recently widowed Danny O'Neil has the belief that his wife will return to him by way of fire, and sets fire to buildings around town in hope that she will return to him. For her safety, his daughter Pegeen is sent to live with neighbor. When her father is to be arrested, Pegeen's friend Ezra helps hide her father, who dies shortly thereafter.[1][6]
Cast
- Bessie Love as Pegeen O'Neill[1][6][7][8]
- Edmund Burns as John Archibald
- Ruth Fuller Gordon as Nora Moran
- Charles Spere as Jimmie
- Juan de la Cruz as Meredith
- Major McGuire as Ezra
- George Stanley as Dan O'Neill
- Anne Schaefer as Ellen
- Jay Morley as Lem Tollerton
